Marken Island, Netherlands Size:Standard: 6 x 4in The poor of Berlin rummaging

The poor of Berlin rummaging in refuse heaps

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Portrait of Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle

showing the gate on fire during the Great Fire of London 1666 at the point when the walls of Ludgate Gaol fell

Marken Island, Netherlands Size:Standard: 6 x 4in The poor of Berlin rummagingMarken Island, Netherlands, 1898. The former island of Marken is a peninsula, now connected to the North Holland mainland by a causeway. It is well known for its characteristic wooden houses. Illustration from a book of photographs taken in Holland and Belgium by James Batkin, (1898).